us history credit 8
VISTA
A domestic version of the peace corps that provided help to poor communities in the United States in 1960's
Medicare
A healthcare program for people over 65
New Deal
A plan by President Franklin Roosevelt intended to bring economic relief, recovery, and reform to the country after the great depression
Mississippi freedom Democratic Party
A political party created in 1964 during the civil rights movement with the purpose of winning seats at the 1964 democratic national convention
Freedom summer
A volunteer project in which college students spent their summer vacation in Mississippi registering African-Americans to vote
Freedom riders
Activists who challenged segregation in bus terminals in the south in 1961
Barry Goldwater
An American senator for Arizona
Head Start
An education program for the preschool children of low income parents
What did Nikita Khrushchev order the construction of to prevent Germans from escaping to freedom in West Berlin?
Berlin wall
What was founded by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale in Oakland, California?
Black panther party
When Martin Luther King turned his civil right's efforts to this city, he lost the support of some white northerners.
Chicago
What type of segregation did many African Americans face in the northern United States?
De facto segregation
What is segregation by law known as?
De jure segregation
The US-backed Bay of Pigs invasion was launched overthrow what Cuban dictator?
Fidel Castro
What was Kennedy strategy called that involved strengthening conventional U.S forces so the nation would have other options than nuclear weapons in times of crisis?
Flexible response program
Who delivered his "I am a Berliner" speech near the Berlin wall to show continued American support for the people of West Berlin?
J.F Kennedy
Robert Kennedy
John Kennedy's brother, persuaded judge to let king go
What report identified poverty and discrimination as the cause of urban riots?
Kerner Commission
The alliance for progress offered billions of dollars in aid to build schools, hospitals, roads, housing, and power plants in what location?
Latin America
who chose his surname to represent the loss of his original, African identity?
Malcolm x
What did James Meredith call his march from Memphis, Tennessee, to Jackson, Mississippi - in which he sought to encourage African Americans to register to vote?
March against fear
Who was shot and killed in Memphis in 1968 as he stood on the balcony of his motel?
Martin Luther King Junior
Who did the Southern Christian leadership conference elect as its first leader ?
Martin Luther king jr
In Virginia, officials at all levels pledged to block integration as part of what movement ?
Massive resistance
The 1955 arrest of Rosa Parks lead to a boycott of what?
Montgomery bus boycott
Who was the leader of the Soviet Union during the Cuban missile crisis?
Nikita Khrushchev
What was the program called that began during the Kennedy administration and trained and sent volunteers to Africa Asia and Latin America?
Peace corps
Johnson doctrine
President Johnson's philosophy that revolutions in Latin America were not just local concerns when "the object is the establishment of a communist dictatorship"
Job corps
Program under president Johnson that offered work-training-programs for unemployed youth
Selema March
Protest march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama for voting rights that turned violent on the Edmund Pettis bridge
Truth-in-Lending Act
Required lenders to inform consumers of actual cost of credit transactions
Who did John F Kennedy defeat in the 1960 presidential election?
Richard Nixon
New frontier
The nickname given to President Kennedy's plan for changing the nation
Great Society
The term for the domestic programs of the Johnson administration
Soon after Charles Hamilton Houston began an NAACP effort to attack the concept of "separate but equal" through the courts, he was joined by which one of his former students ?
Thurgood Marshall
In the early 1960s Soviet government officials were concerned about the nuclear missiles that the United States had placed where?
Turkey
Rosa Parks
Was arrested because of her refusal to give up her seat to a white person
Lyndon Johnson
Was kennedys Vice President but later became president after his shocking death opposite of Kennedy but had a lot of pervious experiences to help him be a good president
Pueblo
a U.S Navy spy ship
What did the brown ruling declare?
all schools were to be desegregated and integrated with both black and white students
Fannie Lou Hamer
an MFDP leader that presented her groups case in the conventions credentials committee to decide which delegates should represent Mississippi
24th amendment
banned states from taxing citizens to vote
Critics of Stokely Carmicheal believed what movement was a call to violent action?
black power
Voting rights act of 1965
civil rights law that banned literacy tests and other practices that discouraged blacks from voting
Voter education project
project to register southern African Americans to vote
student nonviolent coordinating committee
sit-in leaders group to conduct other nonviolent protests
The Cuban missile crisis began when the United States learned that the Soviet Union was installing what in Cuba?
surface to air missiles
Members of what were called black Muslims?
the nation of islam that used the ideas of black power
Highway beautification act
this law limited advertising along main highways and provided federal funds for landscaping and roadside rest areas
poll tax
was a taxing on citizens in order to vote so african americans were not able to but was banned by the 24th amendment